Kerbal Space Administration

Year 19, Day 177 It is unfortunately finally official; the Kerb-Shuttle program has finally been retired by KSA. But, they have new amazing plans. The beloved Kerb-Shuttle program (K-S) has finally been retired; the last mission was KS-17 to the Kerbal Space Station (KSS) to deliver supplies and as a tribute to the program. The only reason it was retired was funds for the program finally "ran out," according to KSA. This made many sigh, and also cry, but KSA is working towards something bigger than a shuttle, which was already basically a flying brick. The only reason the shuttles made it this many years was because KSA thought it was "cool." But what are they working towards, you ask? Well, in collaboration with SpaceK, they are trying to make rockets the next big mode of transport and payload once again as they were a while ago. But that is all we have heard of for now; it's only a matter of waiting now, to see what they come up with.

Year 19, Day 168 So, KSA and SpaceK have finally collaborated on something fantastically weird; an odd project of grabbing onto a rocket, using the KS-Arm2 that's on the Kerbal Space Station (KSS). Now, there are multiple reasons they did this. One of those reasons being, KSA wanted to test the upper limits of what the KS-Arm2 could lug around. So, it grabbed SpaceK's newest "soon-to-be automated" spacecraft, the Kerman KX1 vehicle. The vehicle is one day planned by SpaceK to be a direct replacement of the Kerb-Shuttle, so that when inevitably, the Kerb-Shuttle program does die, we still have a way to get to the space station and do other things in space. As for the arm carrying the craft around, it was able to carry it from one side of the station to the other, wrapping around the truss. As a plus, the Kerb-Shuttle Explorer recently visited the station again in mission KS-15 to deliver supplies to the station after the Kerbonauts quote: "ran out of snacks....